Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1937, Page 6

A—6 Negro Historigns Gather Here This Week for Annual Session THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Ickes Inspects Park Police Achievenwu By CARTER G. WOODSON, Founder and Directoréof the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History convenes here today in its ession. through Wednesday. A committee of 100 citizens in the District of Columbia sponsoring the conference has been organized with various subdivisions to carry out in detail the thorough preparation for the assembly of investigators and teachers in the schools and colleges of the country where the study of the Negro has been made an objective. Dr. Gar- net C. Wilkinson, first assistant super- intendent of schools, is the chairman; Miss Susie R. Quander, a member of the faculty of the Garnet-Patterson | High. School, is the secretary of this| committee. The sessions will be held in the auditorium of the Garnet- Patterson High School, Vermont av nue and V street N.W. The announcement of the annual meeting of a learned society to docu- ment the history of the Negro comes to some of the American public as a gurprise. A prominent citizen, well informed on other affairs, inquired as to what an undertaking of this sort can accomplish when, as he had been thinking, the Negro came out of glavery with nothing worthwhile hind him and looking forward to the future that he may make history. ‘The staff of this organization and co- workers similarly interested through- out the country, however, have shown during 22 years of painstaking re- gearch that the Negro race, like any other branch of the human family, has been accomplishing things from time immemorial. They founded king- doms and empires in Africa which antedated many of those in Europe and in Asia, and at these centers of their ancient culture they made dis- tinct contributions to philosophy, science, literature and art. Not All Were Slaves. A young white man, a graduate of the University of Maryland, who came into the office of the director to write a bond for the secretary-treas- urer of the organization, was surprised to know that none of its objectives has been to study the Negroes free before the Civil War. He had the impression that all Negroes in America were held &s slaves until that the general emancipation. half a million, one-seventh of the American Negroes, had alreeady be- come free. Many of these had at- tained the status of efficient mechanics and artisans and a few had gone into the professions The association functions as an egency disseminating this information among the white people. They, too, need to know the Negro. Race hate has developed because the better ele- ment of Negroes are not known to the whites. The public knows all about the crimes committed by Negroes, but practically mothing about those who are trying to help themselves. This society aims especially to publish those worth-while achievements through the magazines and books which are widely circulated The purpose of this association is to penetrate that background in order to inspire the descendants of those Negroes who were carried away cap- tive and enslaved in lands beyond their shores as was the case with those who were brought here to the United States to toil two and one-half centuries in bondage. The histony of the Negro does not begin on the plan- tations and in the mines of America Certain portions of all races have at times beehenslaved. Slavery was the normal condition of people in the ancient world, Only one-third or one-fourth of the people at that time were actually free Have Impressed World. With these objectives, the writer founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in Chicago September 9, 1915, Since that time the researches and publications of this learned society have so impressed the world as to win the support of the outstanding organizations of both races in the United States, and the work is not without a hearing in most of the*learned circles of Europe and Africa. Some of its most distinguished supporters have been the late Julius Rosenwald, the late Paul Warburg, the late Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, Harold H. Swift and Dr. James R. Angell, the retiring president of Yale The association has had a staff of investigators itself, and it works in co- operation with others similarly cerned in various parts of the countr Briefly told, the association has 1. Directed the attention of investi- gators to his neglected field. About twenty-second annual | The conference will continue | | University con- | 2. Extended the circulation of the | Journal of Negro History into South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. 3. Published 22 volumes of articles end documents giving facts which are generally unknown. 4, Produced 25 monographs on Negro life and history. 5. Organized and stimulated the nnd ngrpse of Race thl Be Discussed by Prominent Educators During 4-Day Meeting. be- |* conflict ended with | studies of local clubs and classes, which SMALL ORDERS of LUMBER Promptly Delivered specialty small makink We a o Vciting “Tumber n quantities. If _vou're minor repairs about the house and meed’ a small aquantity of Tumber, ret n here. 'No need ts v phone _your Well make " delivery free of charge. In addition, we'll cut and rip your lumber to wanted Sizes at no- extra cost. Call the family Lumber yard for prices on lumber and millwork. \ J. FRANK 2121 Go. Ave. NO. 1341 Service have done much to change the attitude | of communities toward the Negro. 6. Collected thousands of valuable | manuscripts on the Negro, which have been made accessible to the public in | the Library of Congress. 7. Had a number of young men trained for research in social science and for instruction in colleges and b universities. Conference Has Definite Program. The program of the annual meet- ing shows an cffort to develop the thought along certain distinct lines, namely, the contribution of the Af- rican Negro to civilization, the pres- ent status of natives on that con- tinent and the Negro in America from the same point of view. On this pro- gram will appear scholars of boti races who have impressed themselves upon the country es authorifies in this fiefd. At the first In approved military style, Secretary of Interior Ickes accepts | -an officer’s gun for eramination during an inspection tour he made o/ the United States Park Police Fnduy —A. P. Phnto‘ sion today at 3 p.m., Prof. Lawrence®D. Reddick of Dillard will speak on “Race and Attitudes of James Ford Rhodes.” He will be followed by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, presi- dent of the association, now con- nected with the National Youth Ad- Science of the Ohio State University, | schools presiding. will deliver an address on “Imperial- | Thomas P. Martin, acting chief of ism: An Interpretation.” He will be | the Manuscript Division of the Library followed by Prof. W. Lloyd Warner | of Congress, will speak on “High of the Department of Anthropology of | Points in the Activities of the British the Universtty of Chicago, who will | Anti-Slavery Society with Special Rel- speak on The Negro in the Amer- rence to the United States.” ican Social Hierarchy.” | time #lso Dr. Carl L. Lokke, forme ministration in Washington. She will| On Tuesday at 10 am. the visitors & professor at Columbia University, deliver an address on “Clarifying Our be entertained at an editors’ | but new connected with the National Vision With the Facts. reakfast, with Dr. Luther P. Jackson | Archives, will speak on “The Na- The visitors will be entertained at a State College presiding. | tioral Archives With Respect to the a reception from 6 to 8 o'clock this| At tlus time there will be a round- | Records of the Negro.” evening at the Phillis Wheatley As- | table discussion of the problems of | The evening session on Tuesday will sociation, Rhode Isldnd avenue at|the eaitor of & scientific magazine | be devoted to an address by Dr. W. Ninth street NN'W. This affair will and an evaluation of what has been be sponsored by the College Alumnae | hitherto produced in this field. Club. Tomorrow morning they will| Following the annual business ses- be entertained at & writers’ breakfast | sion of the association at 1 p.m. Tues- | in the same place, where will be dis- | day, there will be a discussion of cussed the problems of the writers “Documenting the History of the and suggestions for their solution.| Negro” at 3:30 p.m. with Dr. John Dr. Charles H. Wesley will preside. C. Bruce of the Washington public After visiting the schools of the | city early tomorrow the interest will = AGENT WANTED shift to the discussion of the back- ground of the Negro. At the session at 3:30 pm, Prof. Newell N. Puckett of Western Reserve University will Be independent Own your busi- ness. 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Another feature of interest for vis- itors will be a tour of Washington and vicinity conducted Wednesday morn- ing by Col. W. A. Hamilton, a mem- ber of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia. Much interest, however, is centered on an important exhibit of Negro art, with emphasis upon the works of the late Henry O. Tanper. This exhibit will be in the Howard University Gallery of Art, un- der the direction of Prof. James Ver- non Herring of that institution. At the session Sunday and the two evening sessions on Monday and Tues- day, respectively, musical selections of a high order will be rendered by some of the best artists. The Cantoren, un- der the direction of Miss Mary L. 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